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蒿

hāo
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 wormwood; mugwort; Artemisia (a family of aromatic herbs)

Examples

青蒿是抗疟疾药物的重要原料。
Qīnghāo shì kàng nüèjí yàowù de zhòngyào yuánliào.
Sweet wormwood is an important raw material for malaria drugs.
春天村民采野蒿做青团。
Chūntiān cūnmín cǎi yě hāo zuò qīngtuán.
In spring, villagers pick wild mugwort to make rice cakes.

Tips

culture
Best known in 青蒿 (qīnghāo, sweet wormwood). Extract from it, 青蒿素 (qīnghāosù, artemisinin), is a Nobel Prize–winning antimalarial drug developed from traditional Chinese medicine.

Components

radical
艹 cǎo
grass; plant
The grass radical 艹 on top marks this as a herb, the wormwood or mugwort family of aromatic plants.
phonetic
高 gāo
tall; high (phonetic)
高 (gāo, tall) sits below as the sound element, its reading shifted to hāo. It contributes only the pronunciation here.

Stroke Order

蒿 hāo